statementing

1. 1
   verbUK

   Present participle of statement.

   Officials were statementing children across the district throughout the spring term.

   Statementing a pupil requires written reports from several professionals.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is the transitive statement, meaning to issue a child with an official Statement of Special Educational Needs. The participle therefore takes a direct object, as in officials statementing pupils. The gerund is spelled the same as the assessment noun but keeps its verbal grammar. Statementing a pupil has an object; delays in statementing uses the noun, which stands alone.

2. 2
   nounBritishuncountable

   The formal, official assessment that identifies a child as having special educational needs.

   The local authority completed her statementing just before she started secondary school.

   Delays in statementing left many families without classroom support for over a year.

   Note

   A British education term built on the noun statement. The process takes its name from the document it produces, a legally binding statement of the support a child needs. It is uncountable: you speak of a child's statementing, never of a statementing. A local authority carries it out or completes it. After 2014 it was largely superseded by education, health and care plans, so the word now belongs to that earlier system.

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